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    Everyone likes things that are free, and businesses often give things for free to customers as a way of getting more people to pay attention to their products. 

    Ariely, a scientist from MIT, did an experiment on what people would do when _21_ things that were free. He _22_ a group of students two kinds of chocolates: the good one for 15 cents each and the poor one for 1 cent each. The good chocolate was worth $1,00, so 15 cents was very cheap, _23_ the poor quality chocolate was worth 5 cents, so _24_ it for 1 cent wasn’t very cheap. 

    Most people chose the high quality chocolate for 115 cents. That’s not a _25_. But then Ariely lowered the _26_ of both pieces of chocolate by 1 cent. If people were _27_ correctly, then they should _28_ choose the good quality chocolate. But that _29_ what happened. Most people chose the free chocolate. This doesn’t make sense in our _30_ way of understanding economic behavior (经济行为). 

    What is happening here?  Ariely _31_ that people want to get a good bargain, but they also want to reduce risk (风险). That is, they want to _32_the chance of making a_33_. If you pay 14 cents for a piece of chocolate, and then you don’t _34_ like it, when you have it, you have lost 14 cents. But when something is free and you don’t like it, you haven’t lost anything. People would __35__ not to take a risk over getting a better bargain. 

21. A. facing             B. buying              C. giving      D. treating 

22.  A. posted           B. produced          C. offered     D. told 

23.  A. if                   B. as                       C. for            D. but 

24.  A. getting         B. holding              C. eating       D. making 

25. A. dream           B. reason                C. reply         D. surprise 

26. A. weight          B. size                     C. price         D. quality 

27. A. working        B. thinking              C. planning   D. looking 

28. A. still               B. once                    C. almost      D. even 

29. A. should be    B. shouldn’t be     C. is              D. isn’t

30. A. easy             B. old                       C. normal      D. modern 

31. A. questioned  B. explained            C. agreed       D. added 

32. A. find             B. learn                     C. lower         D. take 

33. A. decision      B. mistake                C. promise      D. warning 

34. A. usually        B. gradually              C. certainly     D. actually 

35. A. start            B. prefer                   C. manage      D. afford 

【参考答案】

21. A 

22. C  

23. D 

24. A  

25. D  

26. C 

27. B 

28. A 

29. D 

30. C  

31. B 

32. C 

33. B 

34. D 

35. B 

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